Re: 2.6 vs 2.4, ssh terminal slowdown

From: Lee Revell
Date: Sun Feb 12 2006 - 18:37:34 EST


On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 22:36 +0100, MIke Galbraith wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 14:03 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 14:47 +0100, MIke Galbraith wrote:
> > > If you think it's the scheduler, how about try the patch below. It's
> > > against 2.6.16-rc2-mm1, and should tell you if it is the interactivity
> > > logic in the scheduler or not. I don't see other candidates in there,
> > > not that that means there aren't any of course.
> >
> > I'll try, but it's a serious pain for me to build an -mm kernel. A
> > patch against 2.6.16-rc1 would be much easier.
>
> Ok, here she comes. It's a bit too reluctant to release a task so it
> can reach interactive status at the moment, but for this test, that's a
> feature. In fact, for this test, it's probably best to jump straight to
> setting both g1 and g2 to zero.

Not only does this fix my "time ls" test case, it seems to drastically
improve interactivity for my desktop apps. I was really being plagued
by weird stalls, it's much smoother now.

Now to regression test it...

Lee

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